Another solution is to build your go executable in a different container and import it into a busybox container. That changes the layering from: debian

Another solution is to build your go executable in a different container and import it into a busybox container. That changes the layering from: debian add go, bzr, mercurial, python, ... build executable to: busybox executable That reduces the amount of data that needs to be downloaded on new boxes by a factor of ten or so.